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Physical Education

Vision

Our aim in PE is to introduce students to a wide variety of sports with the hope that all students leave school recognising the importance of a healthy active lifestyle. Indeed there is a particular focus on healthy active lifestyles, with Health Related Fitness being taught to all year groups. The more able students will be pushed through extracurricular clubs and encouraged to join clubs outside of school. The less able students will have the opportunity to participate in all sports covered on the curriculum. The department realises the huge impact that sport can play in children’s lives and takes the aspects of sportsmanship, fair play, teamwork and leadership very seriously in both curriculum lessons and school teams. The department is fully focused on making sure that all students enjoy sport during their time at WCS.

Staffing

Mr S Boden Assistant Head Teacher
Mr A Huxley Subject Leader
Mr S Kent Head of Learning

Curriculum

The PE curriculum is designed to be as broad and balanced as possible with sports requiring many different skills covered. In Key Stage 3 students are taught PE and Games with the following sports covered for six weeks at a time;
• Athletics
• Badminton
• Basketball
• Cricket
• Dance
• Football
• Handball
• Gymnastics
• Health Related Fitness
• Rounders
• Swimming (yr 7 only)
• Table Tennis
• Tennis

In Key Stage 4 unless PE is chosen as a BTEC or GCSE students are taught for Games only. This means that the following sports are taught
• Badminton
• Basketball
• Football
• Health Related Fitness
• Rounders
• Tennis
• Table Tennis

A great emphasis is placed on boys attending extracurricular clubs and representing the school by playing school teams. The school fields team for;
• Athletics
• Badminton
• Basketball
• Cricket
• Football
• Handball
• Swimming
• Tennis

The department runs inter house competitions for Football and Athletics during the school year.

Enrichment

The department runs two annual trips during the school year. One a sailing trip to Essex during October and the other a football trip to Belgium during May. Good behaviour and conduct are high on the list of priorities for the students from the staff as well as participation and enjoyment.

Additional Support

The department runs regularly Saturday and after school revision classes during exam season for GCSE students.